The Association of  Consulting Foresters of Australia (ACFA) was established in 1978 in response to the need to promote and protect the credibility and competence of Australia's consulting foresters.

Nowadays, both the public and private sectors need access to independent, objective and non-political assessments of current and proposed forest activities which are reliable and have the backing of a recognized professional association.

The use of consultants to undertake specified tasks is now common in many   industries: consultants are able to provide unbiased specialist inputs to a particular project at competitive rates. Forestry consultants may be employed as individuals or may form part of a team drawing on expertise from a range of members.

Fire Management

An Australian Standard for Valuing Commercial Forests, May 2004

Supplement to An Australian Standard for Valuing Commercial Forests, January 2005
(Click here for a PDF of this document)

An Australian Standard for Valuing Commercial Forests Version 2.0, June 2007

Handbook to accompany “An Australian Standard for Valuing Commercial Forests” - Normal Print Version, August 2007

Handbook to accompany “An Australian Standard for Valuing Commercial Forests” - Duplex Print Version, August 2007

Executive Committee Members

Membership

Full Members of the ACFA are issued with a numbered seal which verifies their credentials and their standing with the association.

Full Members are required to:

• be practicing full time as a consultant forester
• be eligible to be a corporate member of the Institute of Foresters of Australia
• have at least 5 years practical forestry experience, including 12 months full time consulting experience
• conform at all times to the Association's Code of Ethics, thereby providing the client with an assurance that advice given and business undertaken will be professional and confidential
• be covered by a Professional Indemnity Insurance policy.

A complete list of consulting foresters can be accessed by clicking on the "find a consulting forester " button above. This will provide an alphabetical listing, a listing by skill and a listing by State.

Skills

Skills possessed by members of the Association include:

• Execution of feasibility studies

• Effluent re-use through forests

• Fire management and advice

• Financial analysis of forestry investments

• Forest inventory and geographic information systems

• Forest valuation

• Formulation and management of overseas aid projects

• Industrial planning of forest based industries

• Management of native forests

• Marketing, harvesting and utilization of forest products

• Plantation management

• Preparing environmental impact statements

• Research and Development

• Studies for government bodies/policy analysis and formulation

• Trees on farms/Agro forestry

• Training